Category: Resources

So today ends the great “A Resource A Day in October”. I’ve had fun writing about these different resources, and I have enjoyed rediscovering some tools I haven’t used in a while. For this last day, I wanted to give you access to all that I am creating. Here is a link to access my…

Parent/Teacher conference time is upon us, and I have had an extra struggle this year. BIT14 is scheduled on the days set aside for PT interviews, and this conflict meant that I needed a way to schedule my own times. I decided to dive headfirst into creating appointment slots using my GAFE account and using…

They say that “A google a day keeps the bad citations away.” Although I pretty sure that they are the marketing department for Google. Nonetheless, “A Google A Day” is the gamified version of Google Search. It asks you a question, and gives you access to a google search (devoid of spoiler ridden autocompletes), and…

In case you didn’t know, and I sincerely hope that you do, much of the National Film Board‘s catalogue is available online. Much of my childhood was spent watching their crazy little shorts, including the much beloved “Log Driver’s Waltz” Canada Vignettes: Log Driver’s Waltz by John Weldon, National Film Board of Canada The NFB…

In my pursuit of cross-curricular applications, I stumbled upon a book that was at once awe-inspiring and wonderfully useful. It was “How To Count Like A Martian” by Glory St. John. Told as someone trying to decipher a message from mars, it goes through the history of counting systems and asks the reader to compare…

One of my challenges each year is how to integrate art into the other subjects (other than having the students just adding a drawing component to a poster or similar activity). I stumbled upon the concept of Marth a few years ago (with the help of Tom Fuke). The idea was to have an art…

I find QR codes to be extremely useful in class for quick reference items. We have used them when we create a research bulletin board/poster, as a quick way of citing references for student work, a board for accessing commonly used websites and current assignments and rubrics. For all this to run smoothly, you need…

One of the nice side-effects of a giant clandestine operation is that they keep great stats on people, places and things or just about any noun you can think of. The nice part for us teachers and student researchers, is that they keep a really nice World Fact Book. It has really detailed stats for…

I try to keep most of my resources hardware and software independent, but sometimes, somethings are too good to pass up. 100 000 stars is basically google street view for the universe. Students can travel in 360 degrees as the explore the universe around them. It is a great tool for examining real distance between…

While newspapers are fast becoming a niche market, it is still important for students to think critically about what they read and write. I find that when big news stories hit (like today’s), having students look at a range of responses helps them process the information, and gives them an idea about how the media…